In the spirit of the last post, I wanted to share my newfound interest in another language that I previously hated. Ive always treated JavaScript like an unloved cousin. I hated dealing with it, and my brief encounters with it were really unenjoyable. However, I’ve had to deal with it a bit more recently, and thankfully my earlier encounters are distant memories, and the more recent experience is much better. There are two reasons for this: one is the excellent JQuery framework, and the other is the disparate collection of elegant patterns and best practises that have made JavaScript into a reasonably elegant language to work with.
The single best reference I have found so far that elucidates on all of these is the excellent “Javascript Web Applications” from O’Reilly, which expands on many facets of modern JavaScript usage. I would definitely recommend checking this book out.
